Alexander Konovalov
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- This article is about a politician of Imperial Russia. For a modern Russian politician with this name see Alexandr Konovalov.
Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov (Russian: Александр Иванович Коновалов) (September 17, 1875, Moscow - 1948, New York City) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur. One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma. During World War I he was vice president of Alexander Guchkov's Military-Industrial Committee, and after the February Revolution he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the Provisional Government. After the October Revolution he emigrated to France, where he was a leader of leftist Russian emigrés; at the start of World War II he moved to the United States.
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Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961), p. 284
